You're getting a terribly skewed sample if you're only informing yourself based off homeless people who are visible on the street, in front of you.
Sure, there are also homeless people who live in cars and vans, motels, shelters. More than most realize. There's families, veterans, etc. But they don't make up the majority of people experiencing chronic homelessness.
Evidence/stats?
I'm confused why the poster replied with a bunch of stats and then deleted the post. I suppose because they didn't really support the argument and one at least seemed to be misquoted?
>But there's a large segment of homeless people who choose to be homeless or
So people sitting in $900,000 homes are saying you know what? I'm gonna live in a tent under a bridge.